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good for the healthcare bill, to go down in history as the first president to pass a national healthcare bill, and he listened to valerie and michelle, not to rahm emanuel, and this was the beginning of emanuel's erosion of power, because it was one of several examples to which the president listened to the ideology of valerie jarrett, rather than the pragmatic advice of rahm emanuel. and ultimately rahm emanuel was forced out of the white house by michelle and valerie jarrett, and to this day he resents that. >> host: edward klein, are you a conservative? >> guest: i think i would describe myself as someone who is right of center. if that makes me conservative, i'm conservative. i'm sortly not a liberal. my training as a reporter is to let the facts speak for themselves. but i do have a sense that this country has been drifting in the wrong direction, and that is ought to be righted, if you will, using that word right in both senses of the word. >> host: have you politics changed over the years? should i -- >> guest: i think i've been a conservative or conservative leaning for quite som
good for the healthcare bill, to go down in history as the first president to pass a national healthcare bill, and he listened to valerie and michelle, not to rahm emanuel, and this was the beginning of emanuel's erosion of power, because it was one of several examples to which the president listened to the ideology of valerie jarrett, rather than the pragmatic advice of rahm emanuel. and ultimately rahm emanuel was forced out of the white house by michelle and valerie jarrett, and to this day...
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and it as has $27 billion, with a b to computerize our pen and paper healthcare system so your doctor doesn't killive with his hand writing, authorize a new rail network this biggest transportation initiative since the interstate highways highwayd extended our high speed internet network to serve rural communities, including america right-hand side biggest push into industrial policies since fdr. the biggest infusion of research money ever. it modernized unemployment insurance which hadn't changed since the new deal, and launched new approaches to preventing homelessness, financing public works, overseeing government spending, you name it. and, by the way, the top economic forecasters a guy it stopped the terrifying free fall. gdp was crashing 8.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008. that's a depression. at that rate would would have lost an entire canadian economy worth of output in 2009. but it's funny. the job losses peaked in january 2009 right before the stimulus passed, and that spring the jobs numbers, which were still really grim, they had the biggest quarterly improvement in 30 ye
and it as has $27 billion, with a b to computerize our pen and paper healthcare system so your doctor doesn't killive with his hand writing, authorize a new rail network this biggest transportation initiative since the interstate highways highwayd extended our high speed internet network to serve rural communities, including america right-hand side biggest push into industrial policies since fdr. the biggest infusion of research money ever. it modernized unemployment insurance which hadn't...
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frankly if you that healthcare should be between the doctor the family and the patient, and that between 15 bureaucrats in washington deciding what they are going to pay for we have a great health care system in this country. the problem is that it is too expensive we need to bring the cost down. my time is apparently. >> moderator: you can have five seconds, i'm sorry. >> you get 30 seconds for rebuttal. >> moderator: the initial question you get two minutes and then the responder it's one minute and then the initial person gets 30 seconds to clarify or rebut and then it goes to the next person and again we go back and forth and i cut mr. mcdowell short on that last one. i think that he hesitated and the card went up at the same time so i do apologize. mcdowell: i would like to respond to mr. benishek's comment and attack. first his attack is pants on fire. that means it's cut medicare by $6,400 a year per individual. >> moderator: we will get to that at this point but right now the question goes to you, mr. mcdowell what are your plans to save the medicare program? mcdowell: medicare i
frankly if you that healthcare should be between the doctor the family and the patient, and that between 15 bureaucrats in washington deciding what they are going to pay for we have a great health care system in this country. the problem is that it is too expensive we need to bring the cost down. my time is apparently. >> moderator: you can have five seconds, i'm sorry. >> you get 30 seconds for rebuttal. >> moderator: the initial question you get two minutes and then the...
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i have plan, it's driving down healthcare costs and repealing the well-intentioned president's bill. i agree with the goals but the law will never live up to the goals of driving down costs. i have a replacement, six point replacement plan. energy, driving down costs for hard-working families and looking to the future, and i voted strongly, nine times to increase the efficiency -- >> moderator: i have to cut you off. we're fast approaching the end of the broadcast. the formal questioning is now over and each candidate now has one minute for closing statement. as determined before honda, you'll go first. >> thank you very much. this election presents very clear choices, as you heard tonight. unfortunately, the congressman has repeated over and over again that i'm somehow misrepresenting, that i'm saying things that aren't true. the fact is, my campaign depends entirely on folks knowing the truth about the congressman's record, and i can say with great confidence the things i'm saying about his record because it is his record. you can go find it, and i encourage you to do so. the fact
i have plan, it's driving down healthcare costs and repealing the well-intentioned president's bill. i agree with the goals but the law will never live up to the goals of driving down costs. i have a replacement, six point replacement plan. energy, driving down costs for hard-working families and looking to the future, and i voted strongly, nine times to increase the efficiency -- >> moderator: i have to cut you off. we're fast approaching the end of the broadcast. the formal questioning...